The killings of Tracy Evans and Felicia Jones may not fit the bureaucratic bean counters’ definition of family violence. But a simple eyeball test will tell you that the two deaths undoubtedly fall into the domestic hopper.

Ronald Brown, 18, is accused of fatally shooting Evans, 46, and her 26-year-old daughter in a Far East Dallas home Oct. 12. Evans and Jones lived there with Brown’s grandfather, who was in a long-term intimate relationship with Evans.

But recently, according to the arrest affidavit, the grandfather agreed with Brown that the daughter needed to move out. As Brown unceremoniously kicked Jones’ belongings to the curb, the two got into a fight. In the chaos — after Jones had broken several windows — shots were fired.

The mother and daughter wound up dead in the house; Brown surrendered to police a week later and is charged with one count of murder and one count of manslaughter.

Like so many domestic violence stories, this one is complicated and messy. It’s not always easy to tell the good guys from the bad actors. But there’s no doubt that Tracy Evans and Felicia Jones didn’t deserve the sorry fate dealt to them.

Their deaths came just before the city marked Domestic Violence Awareness Month with the release of a University of Texas at Dallas report that indicates thousands of victims still aren’t getting the help they need.

While the number of deaths is heading down — from 31 in 2012 to 10 so far this year — even one death is too many. And shelter space remains too scarce. An average of 630 people were turned away each month between June 2014 and May 2015, the period UTD assessed.

Given Dallas residents’ well-deserved reputation of generosity, perhaps we can not only wear a purple ribbon or place a purple light bulb on the porch this month but also make a financial contribution to a local shelter.

The Dallas Police Department also has “gone purple” in a meaningful way with its home visits strategy, which DPD hopes is partly responsible for the lower death toll. Police made follow-up stops at 354 homes during the period of the UTD study, checking on the most at-risk victims.

Police innovations are must-dos if Dallas wants to protect vulnerable citizens from domestic violence. Likewise, City Hall needs to beware of losing momentum in its attempts to change the culture. Mayor Mike Rawlings’ man-to-man campaign, begun in early 2013 with its “real men don’t hit women” slogan, energized the cause in ways that most issue-of-the-month crusades fail to do.

The mere predictability of domestic violence deaths is often what pushes them out of the headlines. They aren’t in the least bit rare. In fact, they are expected. And that’s why we need to continue to give them our full attention.